DOC: management: httpclient can resolve server names in URLs
The httpclient does support DNS resolution since 2.6.
Must be backported to 2.6.
diff --git a/doc/management.txt b/doc/management.txt
index 3b3b26a..5482a9b 100644
--- a/doc/management.txt
+++ b/doc/management.txt
@@ -2145,8 +2145,11 @@
httpclient <method> <URI>
Launch an HTTP client request and print the response on the CLI. Only
supported on a CLI connection running in expert mode (see "expert-mode on").
- It's only meant for debugging. It currently can't resolve FQDN so your URI must
- contains an IP.
+ It's only meant for debugging. The httpclient is able to resolve a server
+ name in the URL using the "default" resolvers section, which is populated
+ with the DNS servers of your /etc/resolv.conf by default. However it won't be
+ able to resolve an host from /etc/hosts if you don't use a local dns daemon
+ which can resolve those.
new ssl ca-file <cafile>
Create a new empty CA file tree entry to be filled with a set of CA